Definitions for concave

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concave con·cave

Spelling: [adjective, verb kon-keyv, kon-keyv; noun

IPA: /adjective, verb kɒnˈkeɪv, ˈkɒn keɪv; noun ˈkɒn keɪv/

Concave is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in concave (accenov).

Definitions for concave

noun

1. a concave surface, part, line, or thing.
2. Machinery. a concave piece, as one against which a drum rotates.

adjective

1. curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex (def 1).
2. Geometry. (of a polygon) having at least one interior angle greater than 180°.
3. Obsolete. hollow.

verb (used with object)

1. to make concave.

Origin of concave

1375-1425; late Middle English (Middle French) Latin concavus, hollow. See con-, cave

Examples for concave

I ran up the twisted, concave surface of a giant stem of some kind.

In a concave mirror the top and bottom are inverted, but this is no transposition.

I am bending them in concave cathode of force over the city.

Thus, far from being salient, its horizontal section is concave.

It was a concave lens, like some powerful optical instrument.

A dentist's mirror is concave; he sees your teeth enlarged in it.

The gouge is a form of chisel, the blade of which is concave, and hence the edge curved.

The sky was like a bowl of brass, and in the concave buzzards were sailing.

You will perceive, Watson, that the glasses are concave and of unusual strength.

The surgeon and the wounded were well sheltered in a concave hollow of the bank.